Abstract
This interview is the first English language introduction to Stelio Maria Martini, whose works of visual poetry are embedded in the richly varied post-World War II avant-garde developments in Italian art, literature and cinema that remain virtually unknown in Britain.Martini's deployment of collage photo-images in poetry since the late 1950s is situated at the blurred and permeable thresholds of art and literature. The objective of Martini's poetic has always been the decolonization of Western literary history, which is firmly entrenched in the Logos, the Word, as sole privileged access to truth. His experiment in the liminality of the word-image have roots in Italian Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, Italian neo-figurative art of the 1950s, but also anticipate the concrete poetry evolving in France, Latin America and elsewhere.
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